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Date:      Thu, 21 Jun 2018 21:34:58 -0700
From:      Gordon Tetlow <gordon@tetlows.org>
To:        Denis Polygalov <dpolyg@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-security <freebsd-security@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Recent security patch cause reboot loop on 11.1 RELEASE
Message-ID:  <CAKghNw3C45YyKMAxgXhrvuY4p4toGDQ8f%2BAz5uH7tgQr2tp_MA@mail.gmail.com>
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Hmm. I'm unable to reproduce the error in any of my testing scenarios.
I apologize for not being to help further. As kib advised, if you can
please post a verbose dmesg from a successful boot along with where
you believe the panic occurs on a bad boot.

Gordon

On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 5:13 AM, Denis Polygalov <dpolyg@gmail.com> wrote:
> Seems like I did not cc my reply to the mailing list.
> Doing it now because I found a hint which may
> lead to the cause of the reboot loop.
>
> Removing:
>
> linux_load="YES"
> linprocfs_load="YES"
> linsysfs_load="YES"
>
> prevent the reboot loop in multi-user mode but
> leave me without Linux emulation...
>
> Regards,
> Denis.
>
>> Hi Gordon,
>>
>> this is real hardware. I found the reason (see below).
>> Setting hw.lazy_fpu_switch=1 in  /boot/loader.conf makes no difference.
>> No panic messages.
>> I can tell you when it happen. Here is the boot messages:
>> ... skipped ...
>> Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec
>> nvme cam probe device init
>> ugen2.1: <Intel EHCI root HUB> at usbus2
>> ugen1.1: <Intel UHCI root HUB> at usbus1
>> ugen0.1: <Intel UHCI root HUB> at usbus0
>> uhub0: <Intel EHCI root HUB, class 9/0, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 1> on usbus2
>> uhub1: <Intel UHCI root HUB, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1> on usbus0
>> uhub2: <Intel UHCI root HUB, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1> on usbus1
>> uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
>> uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
>> uhub0: 4 ports with 4 removable, self powered
>>
>> <---- here screen (local monitor) goes black and machine restarted.
>>
>> ada0 at ata2 bus 0 scbus8 target 0 lun 0
>> ada0: <WDC WD2000FYYZ-01UL1B1 01.01K02> ATA8-ACS SATA 3.x device
>> ada0: Serial Number WD-WMC1P0D1KEHJ
>> ada0: 150.000MB/s transfers (SATA 1.x, UDMA5, PIO 8192bytes)
>> ada0: 1907729MB (3907029168 512 byte sectors)
>> da0 at ciss0 bus 0 scbus0 target 0 lun 0
>> da0: <HP RAID 5 OK> Fixed Direct Access SCSI device
>> da0: 135.168MB/s transfers
>> da0: Command Queueing enabled
>> da0: 858293MB (1757784604 512 byte sectors)
>> Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/da0s1a [rw]...
>>
>> I noticed that I can boot the *patched* kernel in single user mode.
>> Removing these 3 lines from the /boot/loader.conf fixed rebooting loop
>> problem:
>>
>> linux_load="YES"
>> linprocfs_load="YES"
>> linsysfs_load="YES"
>>
>> This machine is used as a test bench to test stuff
>> before deploying on a production server.
>> We need Linux emulation support on the production
>> server to run closed source software...
>> So... maybe this will help someone.
>>
>> Blaming evil penguins,
>> Denis
>
>
>
>
> On 21/06/2018 4:19 PM, Gordon Tetlow wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 11:14 PM, Denis Polygalov <dpolyg@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> What I did is following:
>>>
>>> # uname -a
>>> FreeBSD my_host_name 11.1-RELEASE-p10 FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE-p10 #0: Tue
>>> May  8 05:21:56 UTC 2018
>>> root@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
>>>
>>> # freebsd-update fetch
>>> Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found.
>>> Fetching metadata signature for 11.1-RELEASE from update6.freebsd.org...
>>> done.
>>> Fetching metadata index... done.
>>> Inspecting system... done.
>>> Preparing to download files... done.
>>>
>>> The following files will be updated as part of updating to
>>> 11.1-RELEASE-p11:
>>> /boot/kernel/kernel
>>>
>>> Installing this update cause endless reboot loop.
>>>
>>> # cat /boot/loader.conf
>>> kern.maxfiles="32768"
>>> zfs_load="YES"
>>> linux_load="YES"
>>> linprocfs_load="YES"
>>> linsysfs_load="YES"
>>>
>>> # dmesg |grep CPU
>>> CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.40GHz (3400.19-MHz K8-class CPU)
>>> FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 4 CPUs
>>> SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched!
>>> SMP: AP CPU #3 Launched!
>>> SMP: AP CPU #2 Launched!
>>> cpu0: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0
>>> cpu1: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0
>>> cpu2: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0
>>> cpu3: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0
>>> acpi_perf0: <ACPI CPU Frequency Control> on cpu0
>>> est: CPU supports Enhanced Speedstep, but is not recognized.
>>> est: CPU supports Enhanced Speedstep, but is not recognized.
>>> est: CPU supports Enhanced Speedstep, but is not recognized.
>>>
>>> The machine is HP ProLiant ML350
>>
>>
>> Sorry to hear you are having a problem.
>>
>> Just to confirm, this is running on hardware and not on a Xen
>> hypervisor, correct?
>>
>> Assuming it's running directly on the hardware, can you see if setting:
>> hw.lazy_fpu_switch=1
>> in /boot/loader.conf makes any difference?
>>
>> Is there any panic message?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Gordon
>>
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